mammoth

English

A mammoth

Etymology

From obsolete Russian мамант (modern мамонт), probably from Old Vogul *mēmoŋt ‘earth-horn’ (compare Mansi mā ‘earth’, ou̯tə ‘horn’).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmæməθ/

Noun

Wikipedia mammoth (plural mammoths)

1. A large, hairy, extinct elephant-like mammal of the taxonomic genus Mammuthus.
2. (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.

Translations

elephant-like mammal

• Arabic: ماموث (ar) (māmūṯ) m
• Armenian: մամոնտ (hy) (mamont)
• Azeri: mamont (az)
• Bashkir: мамонт (mamont)
• Belarusian: мамант (be) (mámant) m
• Bulgarian: мамут (bg) (mamút) m
• Catalan: mamut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猛獁 (cmn), 猛犸 (cmn) (měngmǎ)

• Czech: mamut (cs) m
• Danish: mammut (da) c
• Dutch: mammoet (nl) m
• Esperanto: mamuto (eo)
• Finnish: mammutti (fi)
• French: mammouth (fr) m
• German: Mammut (de) n
• Greek: μαμούθ (el) (mamoúth) n
• Hebrew: ממותה (he) (mamúta) f
• Hindi: मैमथ (hi) (maimath) m
• Hungarian: mammut (hu)
• Icelandic: loðfíll (is) m, fornfíll (is) m, mammút (is) m
• Interlingua: mammut (ia)
• Italian: mammut (it) m
• Japanese: マンモス (ja) (manmosu)

• Khmer: លោមគជសារ (km) (loum kʊəchea saa), ម៉ាមម៉ូត (km) (maammoot)
• Korean: 매머드 (ko) (maemeodeu)
• Macedonian: мамут (mk) (mámut) m
• Navajo: bíchį́į́h yee adilohii ditłʼoígíí
• Norwegian: mammut (no) m
• Persian: ماموت (fa) (mâmut)
• Polish: mamut (pl) m
• Portuguese: mamute (pt) m
• Romanian: mamut (ro) m
• Russian: мамонт (ru) (mámont) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мамут (sh) m

  Roman: mamut (sh) m

• Slovak: mamut (sk) m
• Slovene: mamut (sl) m
• Spanish: mamut (es) m
• Swedish: mammut (sv) c
• Thai: ช้างแมมมอธ (th) (cháang maem-môt)
• Turkish: mamut (tr)
• Ukrainian: мамонт (uk) (mámont) m, мамут (uk) (mámut) m (dated)
• Urdu: جسام (ur) (jusām) m, مےمتھ (ur) (maimath) m
• Vietnamese: voi ma mút (vi)
• Welsh: mamoth (cy)

Adjective

mammoth (comparative more mammoth, superlative most mammoth)

1. Very large.
   • 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),

     “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”

Synonyms

• (very large): colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic
• See also Wikisaurus:gigantic

Translations

very large

• Finnish: mammutti- (in compounds), mammuttimainen, jättiläismäinen

• Polish: mamuci m